Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/December/December 21
- 1504 – Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, Archbishop of Mainz
- 1917 – Birth of writer Heinrich Böll, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1935 – Death of journalist and satirist Kurt Tucholsky
- 1958 – Death of novelist Lion Feuchtwanger
- 1965 – Birth of politician Cem Özdemir